S.W.A.T DRILL #32

 

So last week I took a fun call from Queen & Co. at the Great Lakes Mega Meet. The class was called Washi Wonderland. Let's just say I have my FAIR share of Washi tape. My daughter who is 5 has just about as many as I do. (Shhhh don't tell her I borrow hers some times).

 

The class was learning how to make a fun layout with Washi tape. I normally will add it for a little twist but I will say I also took the class to see what else I could do with WASHI tape. Well let's just say it fit perfectly with this weeks drill over at http://swatscrapwarriorsadvancedtraining.blogspot.com/. This week's challenge was to make our OWN flowers. NO store bought flowers here. I used stripes of Washi tape folded them in half and then made loops and from the loops made flowers. 

 

The mat on for the photo is washi tape, the borders at the top is washi tape, and the circles in the middle also washi tape. The flowers have a fun brad in the left and a fun Queen &Co. flair flat back button on the center of the other. I added some Queen &Co. bling and the fun new sticker.

 

I love all the fun colors of the washi tape so I wanted to keep my photo neutral so I used a black and white photo.

 

Don't forget to make a layout, card or canvas making your own flowers and link them up over at S.W.A.T.

 

Hope you enjoy.

 

Lady Liberty

Over at www.pagemaps they are hosting lots of fun challenges and so I thought I'd join in since after all who doesn't love a great challenge and/or lots of fun ideas. While I want my layout to look exactly like the sketch I love to take the sketch and look at it and think how can I make it a little different yet keep similar elements.

Recently I was trying to find 1 photo and came across these photos of the Statue of Liberty from our trip to NY when my husband graduated from college at NYIT. This was from 2005 and I realized I never really scrapbooked those photos. So I kept a few of the lady liberty ones and then I found this challenge and these seemed perfect for the paper and the challenge.

The photos don't do the site justice. This is one of the most breathe taking sights I've ever seen. It was a cool and foggy morning when we went there. It was rainy and still foggy most of the day. I managed to get 2 photos almost of the same view - w/ the fog and a little w/o the fog. It was just stellar to see the Statue.

We roamed around the grounds, and even went over to Ellis Island looking for hubby's family. Such a fun and memorable day.

I hope you like my layout. I used Recollections - "Fabulous Girl" paper line and felt the look of the patina on the Statue matched perfectly w/ the paper in this collection. I wanted a pop of color so I added a little floral mat. The words were cut from the fun little sayings stripe.

The rhinestone border is from Queen and Company.